Librarian by day, asleep by night.
Empathy Day is still a number of months away (it's on the 9th June this year), but preparations are already underway. The 2020 #ReadforEmpathy Book Collections from @EmpathyLabUK were announced today and feature 50 superb books; 33 for 4-11 year olds and […]
A list of 10 (+ 4) resources for graphic novels that I use to keep up with current trends, find classics and fill gaps in my collection.
Do we live in a "post-truth" society? One where facts and knowledge aren't valued, where "experts" are dismissed for being killjoys? I hope not, but there has been a marked increase in this anti-intellectual, anti-fact rhetoric from certain (highly successful) […]
Just a short one today to post an update on the EPQ (Extended Project Qualification) course I blogged about in February. Quick recap: the EPQ is a mini-dissertation research project, usually offered to A-Level students to help prepare them for […]
This time last year, I had to teach 300 children (ten classes of around thirty) how to use a library. I’d never done it before. I had only a vague idea of what I needed to do, and no idea […]
I thought I'd follow up the recent "learning from failures" post with one celebrating a recent success. I am a librarian at a secondary school with pupils between the ages of 11-16. This means that my role involves much less […]
I have been in my new job for 6 weeks now, and in one more week I will have 6 weeks of summer holiday. Hopefully I’ll have a bit more time to reflect on the experience then. Meanwhile, I’ve signed […]
Happy New Year! It’s 2015! Time to resurrect this blog! It’s a bit embarrassing to note that the last entry here was from 2012. I hadn’t finished my library course, I hadn’t started working in the public library service. I’m […]
Hello, good day and welcome to The Book Lender. Perhaps more honestly, this blog should be called "The Aspirant Book Lender", or "The Book Lender To-Be". For I am not a librarian, but I would very much like to be. I cannot think […]